The next day, I had to choose one out of three finalists which consisted two boys and a girl. One boy was out in a minute "How did he even come in finalists? Who choose him?. Oh wait.. I choose him." I scoffed. Now with one girl and one boy remaining, now it will be easy to choose any one, but those two really clashed, both were almost equal in smarts, both gave almost same answers "But they aren't as smart as me, huh" I smirked at my thought. I let them go after telling them that I will be giving them results by tomorrow. As they both exited, I gave a thought on their appearances, the girl Aisa Williams had green coloured eyes and pitch black hair and the boy, Eros White, the cute one, had beautiful blue eyes and grey hair. In total, both had strange yet gorgeous appearance. Now all which was left was to choose any one of them, which was hard "Ohh.." I left out a sigh and thought "What if I hire both? It will benefit me" I went to my manager and asked if I can hire them both and I got this;
"No ma'am, we don't want two persons, we only want one and if we hire them both, there will not be enough work left for them and we won't want them to sit idle, will we? And anyways, we can't assign one position to two persons.", just great.
"So then help me choose one of them" I asked her for a favour because I was confused.
"No ma'am, it is not my decision to make" she answered me.
"Please.. just this once do me a favour", "I am afraid I can't do that ma'am, please understand" she replied and told me to take a break.
"Alright." I went to the cafè and rested there with my coffee.
After spending some time in the cafè, I resumed my search for the owner of that watch. I was keeping an eye on the place of accident through CCTV's, I still had no report for any person searching for this kind of watch, "How can someone leave the watch or anything which they bought recently and also in double price." I thought. I went there, the place of incident and asked some people if they had seen some boy with this watch, but no one recognised that watch. I had spent so much time with this watch so I named it, boom, I felt weird and lazy to call it 'the watch' that's why, and I was bored too. While I was resting on a bench with a chocolate bar in my hand, a little girl with cute little green dress and a bow on her head came to me and told me that she saw a man wearing this kind of watch, "Who?! Where did you see him?" I felt relieved after hearing 'I have seen him',
"There was a man who visited my grandma's library a few days ago, I asked him about what time it was, that's when I saw this watch." The little girl said,
"Why did you ask him about the time, aren't there plenty of clocks in the library?" I asked,
"Not in my grandma's library, she believes that we don't need to keep the track of time when we are reading an interesting book, we just need to be in that book at that time" she explained to me,
"Alright, can you take me to your grandma's library?" I requested,
"Sure, come" she lead the way.
She was hopping on her little toes, leading me to the library. The library looked quite old, no, too old. There were barely 15 people in the library, including me, the little girl and the librarian, the little girl's grandma. The walls were out of paint and the ceilings were cracked like they can fall any minute, the book shelves looked like they were attacked by a bunch of hungry wood eating insects, the books were also out of order. While I was gazing at the ceiling, the grandma said "Don't worry, they just look like they are about to fall, they ain't gonna fall any soon". I went to her to ask about that boy, "Have you seen a boy wearing this kind of watch?" I placed boom on her desk. Grandma's eyes went tiny to wide open, as if it was a watch of some God, "Where did you get this? This can't belong to you" she growled,
"Calm down grandma" I consoled,
"Mrs. librarian, I am not your grandma. Tell me, where did you get this?" She got all grumpy suddenly,
"This watch was of a boy who saved me from an accident three or two days ago. He might have dropped this at that time." I explained to her growling face.
"When are you planning to return this? Or are you gonna keep it?" She asked.
"I've come to you to ask about him only, can you please give me any way to contact him?" I asked.
"No need, give me this, I'll return to him." She stretched her hands to grab boom but I took boom off the table "No thanks, I want to return this to him face to face. I need to thank him anyways, just give me his information" I told her.
"I can't give you any of his information, you can go. And please leave the watch here" said 'Mrs. librarian',
"No thanks, I'll wait for him here." I went to sit on a squeaky table near the place of the librarian where I can keep a watch if anyone comes to look for the watch.
Even after 3 hours, nothing, "It's almost night, I'll have to go home soon otherwise my mommy will scold me. Uhh...someone?" I sighed. Another hour passed and still, nothing. The librarian told me "it's almost closing time, you should leave the watch here and go home.", there's no way I am leaving without meeting him, I nodded at her. Finally, I had to leave because she was closing the library. While I was standing there and thinking about what to do now, a finely dressed man came to the librarian and started asking something, I bent over a bit in order to listen to their conversation, I heard that man mentioning about something that's lost, "I hope it's about the watch" I thought. While I was eavesdropping, the librarian glared at me and I pretended to look for something on the ground, then she directed that person towards me and that person started to walk towards me, "Are you the one with the watch?" He asked,
"Yes! Are you Haru Webb?" I asked in an excited way,
"No, I am his driver, can you please hand the watch to me?" He pointed towards boom,
"No, I want to give this to him personally, please take me to him, where is he?" I asked,
"We are in a hurry, please hand me the watch" he tried to snatch boom, I dodged his hand and looked for the car. There were plenty of cars in parking, so I took the keys which were in his another hand and finally I located his car. I ran towards that car with its keys still in my hand and knocked on its backseat window, no reply, I opened the car and found nothing in there, the driver followed me and took the keys from my hand. "Where's sir?" He looked here and there, "Sir!" He screamed and ran towards a tall man standing on the footpath. I shoved the driver on the side, "Thank god I found you Haru!" I screamed.
"Who are you?"